Deepstep Come Shining Quotes

“Lead me, guide me to the light of your paper. Keep me in your arc of acuity. And when the ream is spent. Write a poem on my back. I’ll never wash it off.”
― C.D. Wright, Deepstep Come Shining

“A girl sits out-of-doors in her slip./ She turns fourteen, twenty-eight, fifty-six,/ goes crazy.”
― C.D. Wright, Deepstep Come Shining